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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Consultancy : Engaged during 2014 Fees paid during 2014 € Milliman Ltd 1,135 Metis Consulting Ltd 12,915 Dr Barry Gibson 10,005 Trutz Haase 11,562 Mr Paul Batchelor OCC Ltd 7,996 Dr Mary O'Riordan 62,501 National University of Ireland Galway 23,935 University College Cork 12,428 Dublin City University...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 700 and 707 together. The HSE's Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland (ODTI) has convened a working group to progress a strategy for public awareness of the importance of organ donation and the huge benefits of organ transplantation for individuals and their families. The group includes representatives of the HSE, the Irish Kidney Association, Cystic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The transfer of the child and family services function to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs did not impact on the expenditure of my Department. In 2014 Vote 38 (Health) provided for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health and certain other services administered by that Office, including grants to research, consultative and advisory bodies. The Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular patient query raised by you, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 710 to 713, inclusive, together. It is important that newly qualified doctors can be retained within the public health system and measures are in train to support consultant and NCHD retention. One of the key recommendations from the Working Group chaired by Prof MacCraith, DCU, was that the relevant parties commence a timetabled IR engagement of short...

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is pro-active in monitoring transposition of EU Directives. Transposition is monitored through a central tracking system and monitoring of transpositions carried out by the Department of An Taoiseach. Information for the period up to the end of 2015 is being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 717 and 718 together. Ten Bills initiated in my Department have been published since September 2013. Information sought by the Deputy on those Bills is set out in the table below. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children held a series of public hearings on the general scheme of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 719 to 721, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy in respect of secondment positions is detailed in the following table. - 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Position as at 14 January 2015 Secondments to External Private Companies from the Department of Health 2 2 2 3 3 2 Secondments into the Department of Health from External Private...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Following the Milliman report in 2010, my predecessor as Minister, Deputy James Reilly, spearheaded a focus on managing claims costs across the market. In addition, he appointed Mr Pat McLoughlin as independent chair of the consultative forum on health insurance, which produced two reports on measures to reduce costs in the private health insurance market. This focus resulted in a 2%...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I have stated my intention to bring a memorandum for Government, seeking approval to draft the General Scheme of legislative provisions for assisted human reproduction. It is envisaged that a comprehensive Bill would deal with a wide range of issues from the beginning to the end of the assisted reproduction process and will include provisions relating to the issue of surrogacy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Department's Annual Report for 2013 was published on the Department's website www.health.gov.ie on 8 August, 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 346, 347 and 427 together. I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (18 Dec 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up with them.